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By Mekeisha Madden Toby
Special to MSN TV

For years, people have uttered the phrase "Did you see 'Oprah'?" at watercoolers, lunch tables and beauty salons all over the world. That's because ... more for a quarter of a century, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and its highly influential host have been giving us a daytime TV talk show worth talking about and recalling. Remember that time Winfrey dragged out a wagon of fat or that time Tom Cruise lost his cool and started jumping up and down on her couch? We do, too. And as Winfrey, 57, takes a bow, ends her show and goes off into the great beyond known as basic cable with her OWN network, we are taking time out to look back at 25 of the most memorable moments -- good and bad -- on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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